International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Vol. 4, No. 3, 2003

CONTENTS

A Dynamic Evolution Model for the Set of Populations of Neurons

R. Wang, H. Chen ............ 203

On the Order and Accuracy of Operator Splitting for a Fluid-Structure Interaction Problem

L. Ingebrigtsen, T.K. Nilssen, H.P. Langtangen, A. Tveito ............ 209

Nonlinear Relaxation Phenomena in Polycrystalline Solids

Gh. E. Drăgănescu, V. Căpălnăşan ............ 219

The Effect of Fiber Additives on the Turbulent Jets

J.Z. Lin, C.B. Wang, L.P. Shen ............ 227

Atomistic Simulation of the Buckling Behavior of Metal Nanorod

H.A. Wu, A.K. Soh ............ 233

Chaotic Traffic Flow CA Model in Which Only the Cars Following the Trail of the Ahead Car Can Be Delayed

D. Mao, B.-H. Wang, L. Wang, P.-K.Hui, C.-K. Hu ............ 239

Dynamic Response of Timoshenko Beam Structures Solved by DQEM using EDQ

C.-N. Chen ............ 251

Effects of Preload and Number of Balls on Nonlinear Dynamic Behavior of Ball Bearing System

S.P. Harsha, K. Sandeep, R. Prakash ............ 265

Dynamical Modeling of Free Multibody Systems in Fully Cartesian Coordinates

X.-S. Ge, Y.-Z. Liu, L.-Q. Chen ............ 279

Dynamic Interactions between Two Surge Vessels during a Flow Transient

S-K Tan, Z-X Zhou ............ 289

Brief Note

Application of Lagrange Multiplier Method to the Search for Variational Principles of Nonlinear Electrostrictive Materials

T.-H. Hao ............ 307

Application of the Lagrange Multiplier Method the Semi-Inverse Method to the Search for Generalized Variational Principle in Quantum Mechanics

T.-H. Hao ............ 311

Variational Principle for Nano Thin Film Lubrication

J.-H. He ............ 313

Corrigendum ............ 315